Interface Manager

About the Role

HanmiGlobal is seeking an Interface Manager to join its program management and PMCM team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves leading comprehensive interface management for a large-scale land and infrastructure development program in Riyadh, delivered on behalf of a major government entity.

Role Purpose

The Interface Manager will provide program-level leadership, governance, coordination, and strategic oversight for establishing and managing the program-wide Interface Management Framework. This includes ensuring all external dependencies, utility connections, authority approvals, and package-to-package interfaces are fully integrated and resolved among stakeholders to support the successful delivery of the overall development program.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the Program Interface Management Framework, including plans, procedures, registers, governance processes, reporting requirements, and escalation protocols.
• Establish standardized processes for identifying, tracking, managing, and closing interfaces across all project packages, promoting best practices.
• Identify, monitor, and manage interfaces between development packages, infrastructure systems, utilities, stakeholders, government authorities, permitting agencies, and third-party organizations.
• Maintain the Program Interface Register, ensuring interface obligations, dependencies, risks, constraints, and mitigation actions are managed through to resolution.
• Coordinate with utility providers and regulatory authorities to facilitate utility connections, diversions, permits, approvals, and statutory compliance.
• Coordinate closely with Planning & Scheduling, Design, Technical, Commercial, Construction, Project Controls, and Risk Management teams to ensure seamless integration.
• Assess the impact of interface issues on scope, schedule, cost, quality, and overall program performance, proactively identifying and mitigating risks, and escalating critical issues.
• Prepare interface management reports, dashboards, executive summaries, and recommendations for PMCM Management and the Client.
• Lead interface coordination meetings, stakeholder workshops, and cross-functional review sessions to facilitate timely issue resolution and maintain effective communication.
• Promote continuous improvement in interface management practices and support the implementation of PMIS, EDMS, and digital collaboration tools.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in interface management or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience in managing complex interfaces within large-scale land and infrastructure development programs.
• Strong understanding of program management, PMCM, and project delivery processes.

Location

This position is based in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.